Werner Schoop

Werner Schoop (born August 15, 1924 in Kirn ; † February 22, 2011 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German doctor ( angiologist ). In 1967 he became head of the Aggertalklinik in Engelskirchen.

Life

Youth and education

Werner Schoop came forward in 1941 as a volunteer with 16 years in the Navy and was used as a medical officer candidates to Gdynia on the Wilhelm Gustloff drafted. This former Strength through Joy Schiff hosted since 1940, the second  submarine - Training Division and was used as field hospitals and barge used. On January 30, 1945, the Gustloff was sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13 on the first voyage from Gotenhafen to Kiel, with 10,580 people on board . Over 9,340 people were killed, including Schoop's brother. It was the greatest shipping disaster in world history. The naval first- aid officer Werner Schoop was one of the 1,230 survivors. He pulled the then 18-year-old purser assistant Heinz Schön onto his raft from the ice-cold Baltic Sea and thus saved his life. Some of the rescued were picked up by the T 36 torpedo boat . Werner Schoop was left behind on a cutter and only the torpedo boat Löwe brought him to the port in Kolberg .

Since then, Heinz Schön has dealt intensively with the tragedy of Wilhelm Gustloff , researched for his Baltic Sea archive and was considered the Gustloff expert. Exactly 52 years after the catastrophe , he gave a lecture in Freiburg im Breisgau on January 30, 1997, which Werner Schoop attended as a listener - from Schön's remarks it emerged that the lecturer was the one saved by the listener.

After the end of the war

After the end of the war, Werner Schoop continued studying medicine . After receiving his doctorate ( dissertation on apoplectic cerebral hemorrhage) as a doctor of medicine , he was employed as a medical assistant at the Franziskusstift in Bad Kreuznach from 1949 and then as a medical volunteer at the Physiological Institute at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1952. At the Physiological Institute in Frankfurt, he researched the properties of the peripheral circulation and the methodological requirements for measuring the essential values ​​and parameters, and published the first writings.

In the spring of 1954 he was employed by Max Ratschow in the Darmstadt Medical Clinic and passed the examination to become a specialist in internal medicine . In 1960 he was employed by Ludwig Heilmeyer at the Freiburg University Medical Center, completed his habilitation in 1963 with the habilitation thesis Pathophysiology and Clinic of the Arterial Collateral Circulation in the Occlusion of Extremity Arteries and in 1964 published the standard work Angiology Primer , which is translated into Hungarian , Spanish, at Thieme Verlag and has been translated into Japanese .

In 1992 he was co-editor of the 5th edition, 9th volume, 6th part, of the manual of internal medicine from Springer-Verlag.

Aggertalklinik 1967–1989

In 1967 he became head of the Aggertalklinik in Engelskirchen , which he had converted from a tuberculosis clinic of the LVA Rheinprovinz into an angiology clinic with 250 beds, with the departments internal angiology, radiology, vascular surgery and angiological rehabilitation. He and his colleagues also dealt with thrombolysis in older arterial occlusions; u. a. they took over the "yolking" according to Charles T. Dotter with the blood plug drill . On his initiative, the Association for Combating Vascular Diseases was founded in Engelskirchen in 1972 . V. founded.

For his service and dedication he was awarded in 1989 the Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker , the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class . He was elected an honorary member of the German Society for Angiology . After he retired in 1989, the Schoop couple moved to Freiburg.

His research and works as well as his work in the Aggertal Clinic contributed to angiology being recognized as the 8th focus of internal medicine in 1992.

Fonts (selection)

• Angiology Primer . Thieme Publishing Group, Stuttgart 1964.
• with Manfred Köhler: Metabolic and hemodynamic training effects with normal and disturbed muscle circulation. Huber Verlag, Vienna 1973, ISBN 978-3-456-00343-6 .
• with Reinhard Giessler: Indications for surgical therapy for coronary and cerebral circulatory disorders . Huber Verlag, Bern 1973, ISBN 978-3-456-00345-0 .
• with Eberhard Zeitler : Diagnostics with isotopes in arterial and venous circulatory disorders of the extremities . Huber Verlag, Bern 1973, ISBN 978-3-456-00347-4 .
• Practical angiology . Thieme Publishing Group, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 978-3-13-399903-8 .
• with M. Martin: Defibrination with thrombin-like snake venom enzymes. Negotiations of the VI. Angiological symposium in the Aggertalklinik Engelskirchen in autumn 1973 . Huber Verlag, Bern 1975, ISBN 978-3-456-80069-1 .
• with Eberhard Zeitler (Ed.): Percutaneous recanalization. Technology, application, clinical results. (Percutaneous vascular recanalization. Technique, Application, Clinical results) . Springer Verlag , Berlin 1978, ISBN 978-3-540-08875-2 .
• with Michael Martin (Ed.): New Concepts in Dosimetry of Streptokinase. (New concepts in streptokinase dosimetry) . Huber Verlag, Bern 1978, ISBN 978-3-456-80517-7 .
• with A. Bollinger , K. Breddin, H. Hess, FMJ Heystaten, Jürgen Kollath , A. Konttila, G. Pouliadis, M. Marshall, R. Mey, A. Mietaschk, FJ Roth: Semiquantitative assessment of lower limb atherosclerosis from routine angiographic images . In: Atherosclerosis International Journal , No. 38, 1981, pp. 338-346.
• with Hansjörg Simon (ed.): Diagnostics in cardiology and angiology . Thieme Publishing Group, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 978-3-13-669501-2 .
• with Horst Rieger , Andreas L. Strauss: Clinical Angiology . 1st edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-50899-6 .

Awards / honors

• 1989: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1989: Honorary member of the German Society for Angiology

literature

• Eberhard Zeitler : History of Interventional Angiology . In: Christian Vollbracht, Franz-Josef Roth, Andreas L. Strauss: Interventional Vascular Therapy . Steinkopff Verlag, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-7985-1278-7 , pp. 23-24.
• Werner Schoop, Marine-Sanitary-Oberfähnrich 2. ULD (eyewitness report). In: Heinz Schön : The last trip of the "Wilhelm Gustloff". Documentation of a survivor . Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-02897-5 , p. 140.

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Schoop in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Literature by and about Werner Schoop in the bibliographic database WorldCat .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A balloon for heart and blood . In: Die Zeit , No. 13/1981